ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,372, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for controlling radio emissions of a base station" was invented by Lorenzo Maggi (Paris), Afef Feki (Sceaux, France) and Christophe Grangeat (Viroflay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are proposed for computing a power reduction policy to control radio emissions of a base station over a time window, with the objective to keep the time-averaged radio emissions over the time window below an authorized value set by regulations, with minimum impact on the performance of the overall system. The time w...